overconnectedness

English

Etymology

overconnected +‎ -ness

Noun

overconnectedness (uncountable)

1. The quality or condition of being overconnected.
   • 1999 August 10, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Y2K Social Disease”, in The New York Times:

     This Israeli motorist with a cell phone in each ear, driving with his elbows, gets my vote as the poster boy for the social disease of the next millennium -- overconnectedness.

   • 2011 September 10, Fiona Gruber, “Writing a horse”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

     The novels are set in the 1960s, partly, Smiley says, because she didn't want the overconnectedness of today's mobile phone and Facebook generation […]

   • 2014, Kevin Morris, White Man's Problems‎^[1], Sweet Devil Press, →ISBN:

     The pundits who opined about the negative effects of information overload, of overconnectedness and too much choice, of a society being entertained and digitized to death, did not have it quite right.